Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Chris Nandor wrote:

> Not sure what you mean by
> losing things from upstream.

Just that when I chose to compile software on my own, I lose all the  
debian security work.

They look over packages and re****t vulnerabilities, I can just update  
with apt-get and get a new version - if I compile from source then I  
have to follow security warnings for the software I installed on my  
own. This is not a big deal if we are just talking about two or three  
applications, but if you are sup****ting a platform or a distribution,  
having the debian security do security for thousands of packages  
becomes a service that money cannot buy.

	Jeremiah